Powerless

“I'd never thought about what my favorite color was before. It never seemed important. Not until I looked into a pair of ocean blue eyes and realized that perhaps drowning was a beautiful thing. Not until I looked into a pair of fiery blue eyes and realized that perhaps burning was a painless thing. Not until I looked into a pair of sky blue eyes and realized that perhaps falling was a peaceful thing. I'd never thought about what my favorite color was before because I hadn't seen one that was worthy of the title. Until now, that is. "Blue," I say, my voice low.”

“Remind me to to make you smile like that again, when you aren't dying, and I have all the time in the world to memorise it.”

“She is the embodiment of a bad decision. The twin of danger and desire. The fine line between deadly and divine. And I can feel myself drowning.”

“If I am to be her enemy, I want it to be because she loathes herself for wanting me.”

“And I’ll save your life again and again, aimlessly hoping you will allow me to stay in it.”

“Mark my words, Prince, I will be your undoing.” I lean in, ignoring the knife against my throat as I murmur, “Oh, darling, I look forward to it.”

“What do you want to call me?” “I want to call you mine.”

“Oh, darling, as long as you still think I’m pretty, I don’t give a damn what I look like.”

“For every girl who has ever felt powerless”

“Will you forever be the prize I am aimlessly trying to win""Is that all I am to you? A trophy?""Oh, darling, a trophy implies that I won it, earned it, deserve it." He leans in farther, a certain reverence in his gaze. "But if i get to have you, it will be because you let me.”

“I’m going to ask again. Who did this to you?”

“My pretty Pae, what have you done to me?”

“She said I could touch her when I was sober”

“when his eyes lock with mine, I wonder why I ever bother looking at anyone else.”

“Every girl deserves something equally as pretty and deadly as they are,”

“Because beasts don’t get the beauty.”

“Men would likely go extinct without women to coddle them.”

“I was lonely in a way that I imagine the stars to be, observed by everyone yet too far to truly be seen.”

“The strongest weapon a woman has at her disposal is that she is often underestimated,”

“As tempting as it is to watch you stare at me all night,” his voice is a caress, lulling me to sleep with a single sentence, “sleep, Pae.” I manage to give him a groggy grin before asking, “Are you going to sleep?” “Oh, darling, I’m already dreaming.”

“Everything beautiful, everything bold, everything breathtaking- that is what I feel in her gaze. That, and terrified. Terrified of what she is doing to me. She is a vision, a nightmare, a dream. A grim reaper clad in black, come to steal my soul and my heart. I've never seen something so beautiful, so bold, so blatantly wrong for me. She is a devil. She is a deity. She is a man's downfall in human form. She is my downfall. Then her eyes drift to Kitt. The connection snaps. And I'm left feeling empty besides the jealousy growing inside me. Why did I ever think I could have ever, ever think she would have me? Because beasts don't get the beauty.”

“I love when you threaten to kill me, do you know that?” “Oh? And why is that?” The corner of his mouth twitches up. “Because every time you don’t, it only proves that you don’t want to.”

“Do you always fall into the arms of handsome strangers or is this a new thing for you?""No, only the cocky ones.”

“Remind me to make you smile like that again, when you aren’t dying, and I have all the time in the world to memorize it.”

“Promise me you’ll stay alive long enough to stab me in the back?”

“This girl might be the death of me. Literally.”

“It’s the way he’s looking at me that suddenlymakes swallowing seem like a struggle, breathing seem like a chore. I’ve never been looked at like it’s a privilege to be in my presence, an honor tohold my gaze, a gift to get a glimpse of me. Not until I met him.”

“She’s confusing, captivating, and we’re completely wrong for each other in all the right ways.”

“Not until I looked into a pair of fiery blue eyes and realized that perhaps burning was a painless thing. Not until I looked into a pair of sky-blue eyes and realized that perhaps falling was a peaceful thing. I’d never thought about what my favorite color was before because I hadn’t seen one that was worthy of the title. Until now, that is.”

“You know it’s not the words that bother me, it’s—” “It’s the meaning behind them,”